Gastropod synonyms

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snail
The definition of a snail is a small animal with a distinct head whose body is mostly enclosed by a shell and moves slowly using one muscular foot.
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limpet
A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.
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mollusk
Any of a large phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals, including the chitons, gastropods, cephalopods, scaphopods, and bivalves characterized by a soft, unsegmented body, typically enclosed wholly or in part in a mantle and a calcareous shell, and usually having gills and a foot
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pteropod
Any such animal
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slug
The definition of a slug is a small animal with a soft, smooth and slimy body without a shell that slowly moves using one muscular foot.
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cowrie
A gastropod of the family Cypraeidae common to the Indian Ocean.
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volute
Any of various marine gastropod mollusks of the family Volutidae, having a spiral, often colorfully marked shell.
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univalve
A gastropod, especially one with a single shell, such as a snail, cone, whelk, abalone, or limpet. Univalves belong to the subclass Prosobranchia. Their shells are usually spiral and can hold the whole animal inside.
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mollusc (related)
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bivalve (related)
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crustacean (related)
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amphipod (related)
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echinoderm (related)
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hydroid (related)
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crustacea (related)
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isopod (related)
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tunicate (related)
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prosobranch (related)
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ostracod (related)
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hydrobia (related)
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bryozoa (related)
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polychaete (related)
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  • It occurs immature in the gastropod Nassa.

  • The problem of the causes of the torsion of the Gastropod body has been much discussed.

  • B, The same, partially everted by eversion of the sides, as in the Nemertine proboscis and Gastropod eye-tentacle = pleurecbolic.

  • Walcott has described a tiny lamellibranch (Modioloides) from the inferior Cambrian, and he reports the gastropod (?) genus Chuaria from the preCambrian.

  • According to Spengel, the pair of ganglia near the mouth, variously called labial or cerebral, represent the cerebral pair and pleural pair of a gastropod combined, and the parietosplanchnic pair correspond to the visceral ganglia, the commissure which connects them with the cerebro-pleural representing the visceral commissure.

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